A few months ago, we covered the unfortunate report that a third Bridget Jones’s Diary movie was on the way, thanks to the fact that Bridesmaids director Paul Feig was inexplicably interested in helming the project. Like many of you expressed in the comments section, I was utterly distraught at this news and couldn’t understand why either author Helen Fielding or the movie studio could justify the further desecration of the formerly lovable Bridget, who was transformed in the second movie, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, from an exhilarating heroine to a relatively idiotic buffoon in eternal pursuit of Mark Darcy’s almighty marriage proposal. To make matters worse, the second movie also shoehorned in some silly plot where the Rebecca character awkwardly planted a kiss on Bridget, which was just a shameless attempt to add some “lesbian controversy” into an otherwise vanilla sequel. What I’m trying to say is this — clearly, the first movie was lightning and couldn’t possibly strike twice with the same degree of charm.
At any rate, when the new rumors popped up a few months ago, I was discouraged but also of the firm belief that Colin Firth (and his demanding post-Oscar schedule) would step up and save the day, for he would be the only person who could possibly keep this third movie from happening. Unfortunately, I was wrong, and Colin himself has given EW some new details that are even worse than you could have imagined. Apparently, Mark Darcy is shooting blanks:
It’s finally time to re-open the diary: Bridget Jones is returning to the big screen.
EW has confirmed exclusively that Working Title Films, the production company responsible for the first movie released in 2001 and the second one dubbed The Edge of Reason in 2004, is moving ahead with a third installment. Based at Universal, Working Title has been mulling a sequel since 2009.
No other details were available, but last year, Bridget costar Colin Firth, who plays lovable Mark Darcy, told EW’s Dave Karger some details about a possible plot. “I can tell you that Bridget and Mark can't have children, I think that's the way it goes on,” Firth told Karger, who was reporting for Access Hollywood. “So then she makes the huge mistake of going back to Daniel Cleaver [Hugh Grant's character] for long enough to get pregnant. And I think he dumps her, and she’s left stranded, and guess who comes back to rescue her?”
The movies are based on Helen Fielding's novel of the same name and starred Renee Zellweger as Bridget. The first film was an international hit, taking in a reported $281 million. The second was crucified by the critics but still raked in $262 million worldwide.
Earlier this year, the London Evening Standard reported that Fielding had begun writing the third installment of the best-selling books. At the time, she said there had been discussions about the next film. “I will be working on both the book and the film but I don’t know if they are the same thing yet. It’s not been decided.”
Alright, now that Colin has deserted us, maybe Hugh Grant can put the brakes on this nonsense? After all, Hugh’s been quite busy saving the whole of England (and Americans too} from the NOTW wiretapping scandal. As for Renee, she has no choice but to jump on this ill-fated ship because she’s got no other future projects lined up in the immediate future. Maybe we’ll get lucky and she won’t want to leave John Stamos’ side, but that’s a very remote possibility.
You know what wouldn’t be a totally awful prospect though? Scrap the entire plot that Firth described and just make the entire story about Shazzer (I love that mouthy bitch) with brief interludes of a floppy-haired Daniel Cleaver and a stammering Mark Darcy running through in a homoerotic daze. Because, honestly, I want to capitulate at the thought of Mark “saving” a teary-eyed, pregnant Bridget and have no further desire to see Daniel’s womanizing baby hit upon his own mum.
Kristen Stewart is the cover girl for the September "Fashion Issue" of W Magazine. People are already complaining about the amount of Photoshop that went into K-Stew's pictorial, but I think it's only aggressively 'Shopped in one photo. Kristen, for all of her real or perceived faults, it generally a great model in fashion photo shoots. I love the vibe of this one - 1960s sex kitten meets Valley of the Dolls druggie. Kristen should consider big hair and dark eye makeup for her red carpet looks, because it really works on her. The full W Mag interview (conducted by Lynn Hirschberg) is here, and here are some highlights:
Kristen on her start as a child actor: "It's weird, because I would be the last person in my school to be in plays, but I was forced to sing a song in a school thing. I sang a dreidl song, which is funny for me. I've never celebrated Hanukkah—it wasn't in my upbringing, but it was one of those deals where everybody has to pick a song or participate somehow in the chorus. It wasn't the normal dreidl song; I can't really remember the words, but it was a more serious dreidl song. The dreidl was huge, it was really honored. And that's how I met my agent, who was in the audience. I was eight. I was nine when I did my first movie, The Safety of Objects."
She was never cutesy: "I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy."
Working with David Fincher in Panic Room: "I didn't realize that 80 takes wasn't normal. But it's funny: Some of my proudest moments from film sets are in Panic Room. My character had seizures. Just being able to say, I was 10 years old and I broke all the blood vessels in my eye on that take, is cool. It was fun."
On her "unusual tomboy quality": "I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger. I was, like, No, I'm a girl. Actually, I'm still embarrassed to say that."
On auditioning for Twilight: "I don't really know what to say. I just knew I wanted to work. And I did. I was working when I read the script for Twilight. I read the script before I read the book. I actually did the audition before reading the book, which was kind of crazy. Obviously, I tore all four books apart over the course of three years, but initially I had no idea that Twilight was such a big deal.
She likes vampires: "I f-cking love me a vampire [Laughs]. I was 17 when I read Twilight, and at the time it was so perfect for me. The script was about young kids who think they can handle stuff that they just can't. And they're going to do it anyway. Because, why not? Just torture yourself. I relate to that. Vampires are a little dangerous—and we girls like to test ourselves."
On the Breaking Dawn wedding: "Awesome. This was my first wedding. It was insane. And odd. The wedding dress experience was a huge deal. I tried on one version of the dress, and it was like tweak and tweak and alter and tweak and change, and then it's done. BFD dress. Huge deal. [The wedding] was major. The last Twilight book is filled with BFDs, things that people have been waiting for, for so long. For me, it was ridiculously dramatic: I get married, give birth, the baby has an incredibly accelerated growth rate we're all very concerned about, and I say goodbye to my dad for the last time ever. It was all big—I could never go, Whew, I'm losing this character."
Saying goodbye to Bella: "I'd been anticipating that end-of-Bella moment. I was going, Oh, my God—I wonder how I'm going to feel. And the last scene of the shoot was at the wedding. Every single character was there on set. At the end of that day, I was kind of whacked. And so I never really had that moment then. Instead, it happened later. We needed to film one more sort of honeymoon scene and we went to the Virgin Islands. After that scene, my true final scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life."
On not being "in control" of her life: Yeah—and that time [between 17 and 21] has been sort of nuts for me. In film, I have chronicled every stage of my life since I was nine. And it's more intense now, obviously, because I'm not in control of it anymore….no. Not really. Not if I want to think solely about what I really like to do. It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do—you're proud of it—and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable. In certain situations, people say to me, "C'mon, what's wrong with you?" I apologize. I love what I'm doing, but I'm a little uncomfortable."
On watching her own movies: "It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves. I hear them going around the block to make excuses for why they don't watch their work. It's bullsh-t. Sorry, guys—I know you watch your stuff. [When I watch my stuff] I get embarrassed. It's weird, too: I'm 10 years old in Panic Room, and that's a version of myself that's pretty far away, but it doesn't feel that far away to me. Occasionally my dad will flip the TV on, and it's cool to look at some movie that I'm in for one second. And then, 'Dude, off. Now. Like, cut it out.'"
I think this is one of Kristen's better interviews. I like that Lynn H. didn't ask a million questions about what it's like for Kristen to be so famous, and we didn't have to hear Kristen whine about how she can't go to the mall. What I find most interesting is that Kristen consistently talks about her career ambitions, and how she loves to work. More work for her means more promotional duties, meaning more interviews and appearances in which she's going to have fall back into her affected emo shtick, and she’s going to be slumped over, biting her lip and glowering at people. But she's getting better (hopefully). Here's the video of her interview from W Magazine. Her speech patterns, they bug.
Jason Momoa. Hot. Hard. Tough. Surrounded by ladies. These are new photos of Jason at last night's premiere of Conan the Barbarian, his bid for movie star fame. Since we're not doing Hot Guy Friday this week (it's just me and Bedhead today, sorry!), I thought I would do a post devoted to The Hotness That Is The Momoa. First, how he looked at the premiere: I don't really care for the suit - it's too shiny, and I feel like the jacket is tailored in an odd way - but I appreciate that it must be difficult for Jason to find nice suits that fit. And blue looks great on him! And I love the snazzy vest too. I wonder if he really wears glasses? Because those are not attractive frames on him. Still, he looks nice, overall.
Jason had two "dates" for the premiere - he brought his wife Lisa Bonet and his step-daughter Zoe Kravitz. Both look thrilled to be there with him, although Lisa looks like she might shank a bitch who gets near him. She's looking at you, Rose McGowan. McGowan and this blonde chick (Rachel Nichols), Jason's Conan costars, also posed with Jason and those bitches were handsy. Wouldn't you be all over him too? I would drape myself on him.
To promote Conan, Jason has given lots of new interviews too. No, he's not talking about how hard and throbbing he is again (sigh). But he does talk about his primal, animalistic side (yay!). Here are some highlights from various pieces:
On doing another Conan movie: "I am, as long as people go out and watch [the first one], you know what I mean?"
On the story for a potential Conan sequel: "I wrote it. Yeah, so we’re waiting to see if they’ll accept it. It will mostly be… It’s character-adapted, because I really want to get into more of the mythical creatures, you know? We wanted to go there [in the first one], but having Clash of the Titans, and coming out against that, we wanted to put the budget into some other things…. I don’t want to give anything away, but we already have our Conan, really it’s about the villain, what that villain is going to extract from Conan, and where as an actor I want to go with Conan. You know, no one’s going to know what I want to do better than me. I want to @#$%ing make a great Conan movie.
Asking a friend to break his nose: "I wanted to have my nose broken for this role but wasn't sure how to accomplish it." So he asked a friend. "I was like, 'Dude, I have this idea. I think you should break my nose. Would you do it?'" Momoa recalls. "My buddy just did it right away, damn it. After it was over, I said, 'Dude, didn't you want to think about it for a minute?' But we're guys and he said, 'You don't have to ask me twice. Done deal.' Just please don't tell my wife about it," he begs. "I wonder if she reads your newspaper?"
Jason on Conan: "He's a man. He fights, he f—s. He's a pirate thief. He's flawed," Momoa says. "He's a soldier and a warrior. He won't fall in battle. Plus, women think he has this animalistic, primal side to him that's sexy. Above all, he says what he means."
Going on The Tonight Show: "I did refuse any makeup," he says. "Someone wanted to put powder on me and I said, 'Are you nuts? I'm a barbarian.'"
How he got the Conan role: I was cast because I do "Game of Thrones" and the film had a mutual casting director who knew my work. He said, "This kid is our new Conan." Actually, being cast as Conan wasn't a nail-biting thing. Getting the HBO series was the nail-biter because I had to wait to find out, plus they didn't want to cast out of America. It was seven months of ups and downs. With "Conan," I was equally thrilled because it was a truly iconic role and a departure from who I am.
On comparisons to Arnold Schwarzenegger: Of course, but then again, Sean Connery and Daniel Craig are both James Bond and both phenomenal. We saw Jack Nicholson do the Joker in "Batman" and thought no one else could do it. Then Heath Ledger came along and won an Oscar for it. It's apples and pears or peaches and cream. The point is that it's a new day for Conan. … When I started this movie, I watched the first Conan movie and Arnold did a great job, but it's 30 years later. It's actually shocking that no one redid Conan before now. … [Schwarzenegger] saw the movie and passed on a message that I did a good job. That was fantastic to hear.
Getting injured: Oh, I almost died on the horse a few times. Once, the horse's feet went out underneath him and I slid off his neck. When the horse fell, his butt almost crushed me but missed me by a narrow margin. I was also bucked off and broke a rib. You heard about my broken nose. Don't tell my wife. There were also mornings where I had to crawl out of bed because my body was hurting so bad. So, I'd just put some Epsom salts in my tub and sit there. Then I'd go back to the set and do a few more stunts, knowing that if something really happened to me, I'd be … word deleted.
I love him. He comes across kind of like a puppy, right? A giant, overly-excited puppy. Okay, I need to stop with analogy because I was going to write something that would be seriously wrong. Suffice to say, the man is HOT.
Oh, and who looks worse, Zoe Kravitz or Rose McGowan? It's a tie, right?
The internet, particularly in the age of Wikileaks, has worked an enormous amount of damage upon the “Church” of Scientology, and many of us wonder why certain celebrities (i.e., Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and their wives) choose to stay. Naturally, part of the problem is that the cult has gathered far too many “damaging” secrets through its extensive auditing process of the celebrities in question, and they worry that their careers would be sabotages if this information should (and it would) be leaked by the CO$. Also, I figure that these celebs must have preemptively decided to turn a blind eye to any and all injustices that have been revealed by former members (if you’re not familiar, Ex-Scientology Kids is a great place to start). They just figure that things are great for them, so why rock the proverbial boat? Katie Holmes, especially, is not about to rock that boat. Not only would doing so endanger her astronomical clothing budget, but she’s at least smart enough to see what happened to Nicole after she and Tom divorced. After a number of years of marriage, Nicole resisted Scientology and, as a suppressive person, the church would never allow Nicole to be near her adoptive children again. When was the last time that you saw Nicole photographed with either Connor or Isabella? Exactly.
This week’s issue of In Touch magazine reveals that Katie’s life is one of constant surveillance and control from spies in the CO$. Most of the information comes from a new book, Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion, by Janet Reitman. While the stuff about unpaid labor and Katie’s “wife audition” is nothing new, there’s an interesting claim that Katie and Tom are largely ignorant of the scheme that’s been put in place to keep them line. Would you welcome the CO$ into your lives and even into your bedroom? It seems that the Cruises have done just that:
When Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise in 2006, it almost seemed like a fairy tale come true, from the custom-made gown to the man of her dreams waiting at the altar. But five years later, a new book suggests that the reality of her life is much different than she could have ever imagined. According to the book, Tom’s involvement with Scientology has ensnared his family in a weird world of spying, control, and some claim, even unpaid labor.
And now, these allegations are being exposed in a new book, Inside Scientology, by Janet Reitman. “Church leaders see Tom as a cash cow,” Reitman tells In Touch. So, she says, they do everything possible to ensure that he and Katie never leave the church — and never spill its secrets.
From its very beginnings, Reitman says, Tom and Katie’s relationship has been carefully engineered by Scientologists, although the couple’s rep denies the claims. When Tom and Nicole Kidman divorced, Reitman writes, curch staffers began a campaign to find him a new wife who could attract younger would-be Scientologists. “My source Marc Headly saw viedo tryouts of a number of actresses who were being auditioned to be an appropriate girlfriend for Tom,” Reitman reveals. He claimed several actresses were interviewed — but Katie was the only one who wanted Tom.
According to the book, Katie, 32, has played the part of a dutiful wife ever since. And she has to, since Scientology handlers reportedly watch her every move. “Any conversation you’d have with the star, anything you did with him, what the star read, watched, who he talked to, what he was hearing,” all would be reported to the church, former Scientology official Karen Pressley tells Reitman, meaning no aspect of Tom and Katie’s life is secret, and every aspect must be in line with Scientology rules.
The payoff? The book claims that Tom, 49, gets to use unpaid Scientology members as personal servants for him, Katie and their daughter, Suri, 5. Over the years, Reitman writes, he has had church staffers remodel his condo, build tennis courts for him, landscape his property nad more — without paying a penny. In short, the book suggest Katie’s entire life is a Scientology production, whether she realizes it or not. As former Scientologist Nancy Many tells Reitman, Tom and Katie “are completely ignorant of the strategy that has been put in place to hook and control them.” If that’s true, will the book finally open their eyes?
[From In Touch, print edition, August 22, 2010]
I haven’t read this book yet, but it’s on my Kindle wish list, so it’ll happen at some point. One book that I will heartily recommend on the same topic is My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist by former CO$ slave Nancy Many. If you read the Amazon synopsis and reviews, it’s clear that many other former Scientologists have found support and encouragement from the book by realizing that they’re not alone in their struggles to regain some sense of personal identity after breaking free from the cult. For “civilians” who choose to leave, the CO$ turns them loose without anything — no money, no friends, no family — and often with a large debt hanging over their heads for the so-called “free” audits they received while serving the church as employees.
Meanwhile, Reitman’s book will undoubtedly open some new sets of eyes even though, at this point, it’s almost common knowledge that Katie and Tom only employ fellow Scientologists in their household. Katie’s assistants? Scientologists. The couple’s bodyguards? Scientologists.
Corey Feldman is talking about pedophilia in a new interview with ABC's Nightline, all for a special about child stars. I've just watched the video, and I have to say… Corey doesn't seem cracked-out at all. He seems lucid and kind of paranoid, but he also seems like he's trying to get to some deeper truth. Basically, I'm saying that I tend to believe the spirit of what he's saying:
Here are some excerpts:
Sick, sad and twisted. Corey Feldman experienced the highs and lows of being famous and underage. In an interview with ABC’s Nightline that aired Wednesday, the 40-year-old former child star said that pedophiles were “like vultures” in the entertainment industry.
“The number one problem in Hollywood was, is and always will be pedophilia,” he said. “It’s all done under the radar… But it’s the big secret.”
“I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn’t even know it. It wasn’t until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere,” Feldman, now 40, said.
Feldman went on to assert that pedophilia contributed to the early death of his friend Corey Haim, pointing the finger at one person in Hollywood, but stopping short of naming him.
“There’s one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim. And that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul. And that person needs to be exposed, but, unfortunately, I can’t be the one to do it,” he said. “There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids. They all had either their own power, or connections to great power in the entertainment industry.”
Feldman said that Haim’s substance addiction was also a “symptom” of the molestation he experienced earlier in life.
“There’s a lot of good people in this industry, but there’s also a lot of really, really sick, corrupt people in this industry,” Feldman said. “There are people… who have gotten away with [pedophilia] for so long that they feel that they’re above the law. And that’s gotta change. That’s gotta stop.”
My biggest problem is that he doesn't name names. Is he afraid of repercussions to his non-existent career, or does he simply not want to be sued for defamation? Don't get me wrong, I’m totally buying that a major mogul is into kids. I’m also buying that more Hollywood players are either into children, or very young, underage women, than we’ll ever know. I would just like to know the name of the specific guy Corey is referring to, or at least some clue to form into some kind of blind item.
These are some newish photos of Angelina Jolie choppering (Is "choppering" a verb? "To chopper"? Spell-check says it isn't, but I think it is.) out of Richmond, England yesterday. I don't know what this means for those rumors that Brad Pitt basically abandoned Angelina and the kids in Richmond, just miles away from the riots in central London, while he was off filming in Cornwall. Is Angelina abandoning the kids to the looters too? Probably not. I bet she was just off for a joy ride or something. Note the Louis Vuitton bag! The same GD bag that she's been carrying for months. Surely Louis Vuitton sent Angelina some other purses, considering she's the newest face of the brand? Right? Beyond the money, you become a spokesperson for the brand for the free stuff. Why is Angelina carrying the same old boring monogram bag?
In other Brangelina news, did you know that Angelina and Brad still have hot sex? True story. Angelina is so insatiable that Brad can barely keep up and Angelina might end up cheating on him because her need for O's on demand is so strong.
Ever since she settled down with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie has been trying her hardest to transform her image from kinky sex fiend to earth mother. But as In Touch has learned, behind closed doors, Angelina is just as kinky - and insatiable - as ever.
"I really think Brad would do anything to sexually satisfy Angelina, because he would lose her if he didn't," an insider reveals, adding that for the sake of his relationship, Brad has tried lots of things in the bedroom he'd never dreamed of doing before. "Angelina likes it rough and playful."
And she definitely likes to use props. "She has an antique chest in the bedroom where she keeps her sex toys," the insider whispers. "She also likes bondage, to a certain point."
But even with Brad working overtime in the sack, Angelina has trouble staying faithful. The woman who once bragged that she "likes everything: boyish girls, girlish boys, the thick, the thin" - craves sex constantly. And the insider reveals that she's often "tempted" to cheat.
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]
The rest of the piece is just an interview with Angelina's old nanny. Not a nanny who used to look after Angelina's kids, mind you, but a woman who used to look after Angelina when she was, like, 2 years old. There's a lot of stuff about what a son of a bitch Jon Voight was to Angelina's mom Marcheline, and how Angelina is more like her father, blah, blah.
As for the whole "OMG, Angelina is so kinky, she has handcuffs!!!" - ugh. Yes, the bitch likes whips and handcuffs and leather and knives. We already knew this! And if she's making Brad "work overtime" to please her, than good for her.
Immediately after Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony split, Us Weekly published a great cover story all about what down in the last weeks of Jennifer and Marc's marriage. One of the best stories involved Jennifer's mom, Guadalupe, emailing Ben Affleck and asking for his advice on what Lopez should do. Us Weekly even claimed that Ben replied to Guadalupe, and after that, there were lots of stories about how Ben and J.Lo (Bennifer 1.0) could and should get back together. Oh, and there was also a story about how Guadalupe always adored Ben, because they were gambling buddies, and how she never warmed to Marc Anthony.
Anyway, some people were like, "OMG, how rude! I can't believe J.Lo would even get near Ben Affleck, especially since he's married to The Dimple Princess!" Because this is high school, and exes can never, ever speak to each other, and if they do speak to each other, it means that they're boning. Well, according to Star Magazine, Ben's Dimple Princess is getting ready to cut a bitch over this whole situation:
Jennifer Garner isn't taking kindly to rumors that her hubby, Ben Affleck, reconnected with his ex Jennifer Lopez - and she's doing her best to make sure it never happens.
Garner is telling friends she will fight like hell to keep her family intact and J.Lo out of Ben's life. Garner doesn't believe that J.Lo and her husband should have anything to talk about now - especially since "they parted in a very unfriendly manner," says a source.
Jennifer [Garner] has also told friends that she believes family is the most important factor in her life - and she intends to keep her family together forever. My source adds that Ben and Jennifer are "still very much together and will always put the welfare of their children first."
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Yes, we know that Jennifer thinks "family" is the most important thing is life. Nay, THE ONLY important thing in life, and she thinks that every woman has "no deeper want" than to become a mother. I do believe that Garner is a great mom, and that she loves and adores her family, and her girls and her husband are her top priorities in life. I also believe that Garner sees J.Lo as a threat, probably because Garner not only loves her husband, she KNOWS her husband. Ben Affleck is a dog, and his self-destructive streak runs deep, and there are probably lots of women in his life that Garner is threatened by.
Is there a limit to how much she'll fight back, though? At some point, after Blake Lively and after Jennifer Lopez and after the gambling (which is still a big problem, allegedly), isn't Garner just exhausted from dealing with all of his baggage and issues? That's what I always wonder when I photos of them - why is she holding on to this marriage like Ben's got the last dong on earth? The answer everyone always gives is "the kids". Sure, I'll buy that she's invested in the marriage for the kids, but at some point, won't "self-respect" and "I can't deal with his bullsh-t for one more minute" come into play?
Also: this woman cannot find a flattering casual outfit to save her life.
Mariah Carey seems really out of sorts since the birth of her twins, Monroe and Moroccan, with husband Nick Cannon. One only need to witness a few minutes of her recent HSN appearance to see the evidence of said loopiness. It’s not entirely Mariah’s fault, of course. As we recently from Tilda Swinton, the reality of becoming a mother is such a huge adjustment, and Mariah (being Mariah) probably romanticized the experience so much in her head that she thought babies arrived with translucent butterfly wings and pooped an endless stream of glitter. If you factor in post-pregnancy hormones and all of the associated “feeling fat” aspects of new motherhood, it’s enough to drive a girl more than a little bit batty. And, if this story from The Enquirer is to be believed, Mariah might also be feeling quite paranoid about her husband Nick Cannon’s marital loyalty:
A devastating cheating secret is threating to destroy the marriage of new parents Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, say insiders.
Insiders say the 42-year-old diva fears that Nick — who earned a reputation as a womanizer before marrying Mariah — might be secretly angling to hook up with beautiful 27-year-old “America’s Got Talent” competitor Lys Agnes.
Mariah and Nick, the 30-year-old host of the popular NBC talent show, ahve been plagued by reports of disagreements have have rocked their three-year marriage.
What’s more, pals say the singer is “still feeling insecure about her excess baby weight” after giving birth to the couple’s twins on April 30, and she is “almost beside herself with worry that Nick could stray,” revealed an insider.
“I think she fears Nick’s wandering eye — once a cheater, always a cheater — and she zeroes in on his infatuation with gorgeous Lys.
“Nick Raves about her constantly and talks about the fact that Lys’ voice is nearly as beautiful as hers. He makes comments about how Lys reminds him of a young Mariah. Meanwhile, Mariah’s struggling to shed her baby weight. She feels unattractive and needs more TLC from Nick. But it’s as if he’s too caught up in Lys and his show to even notice!”
Lys, who currently works in retail, quit singing for two years after her fiance was tragically killed in a car accident. But now she’s become an “America’s Got Talent” favorite, performing soaring versions of opera classics.
Nick seems to be the Denver-based beauty’s biggest fan.
“I think Mariah has always been uncomfortable with his Lothario reputation and worries more than ever that he might be tempted into the arms of another woman.”
Mariah’s fear over Nick’s attraction to Lys comes at a terrible time — when pressures on the married couple’s relationship are mounting, say insiders.
“Mariah and Nick seem to be struggling under a mountain of problems,” said the close source.
“They’re both adjusting to the demands of new parenthood - and Nick’s escape from all the stress is his work. Meanwhile, I think Mariah is feeling old and overweight, and she’s almost consumed with fears that Nick isn’t as interested in her as he once was. Their once-fairytale romance is in danger of unraveling because of Mariah’s fears and insecurities.”
[From Enquirer, print edition, August 22, 2010]
A lot of this story sounds like made-up garbage, for only a true schmuck would tell his wife about the so-called “younger version of herself” (like, say, Chris Martin). Although Nick does indeed have a past reputation of being a ladies man, I have a hunch that he’s quite infatuated with his new role as father and husband. Furthermore, he really seems to worship the notoriously carpeted ground that Mariah walks upon and would probably swim through shark-infested waters just to bring her a bottle of Pellegrino.
After all, for the past three years, Nick has acted as if he hit the jackpot when he found Mariah, and I’m not even intentionally referring to her bank account, but there’s also that unavoidable consideration as well. Does anyone really think he’d give all of that up (and probably his twins too) just for a go at this? I don’t think so.
A few weeks ago, Aaron Johnson and Sam Taylor-Wood announced that they were expecting their second child together. He's 21, she's 44. They got together when he was 18. Their first child together, Wylda Rae, just turned one year old. So… it's intense. Anyway, they were spotted last night after dining at Claridges in England. These are some photos of them in the taxi, but if you want to see Sam's latest bump, go here to The Mail. I'm glad they're out and about, and they do look happy with each other, with the world, with everything. So I guess they're solid? Sure. For now.
They raised eyebrows when they got together because of the 23-year age gap and critics said it would never last - but Sam Taylor-Wood and fiancé Aaron Johnson showed just how blissfully happy they were together on a night out in London last night. It was the first time Croydon-born artist Sam, 44, and Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson, 21, have been seen since announcing they are expecting their second child together - and their deep love for each other was clear for all to see.
The couple, who raised eyebrows when they began dating in 2009 due to their 23-year age gap, already have a one-year-old daughter called Wylda Rae.
Ms Taylor-Wood, who was awarded an OBE for her services to the arts earlier this year, is due to give birth early in 2012, her representative confirmed last month. The pair met on the set of Ms Taylor-Wood’s directorial debut Nowhere Boy, in which Mr Johnson, 21, played a young John Lennon. The couple, who live in a £11million townhouse in Primrose Hill, north London, then got engaged on Halloween of that year.
Ms Taylor-Wood, who also has two daughters from her marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling from 1997 to 2008, previously revealed it was Johnson who wanted the couple to start a family.
She said: ‘Aaron, almost before anything started between us, said he wanted kids. He was very clear about wanting a family. We hardly go out now – it’s just us. Aaron has brought a set of values I didn’t even know I was looking for – family values.’
She added: ‘He is more grounded. He has been getting work offers which he has turned down because he wants to be here for the crucial first months of Wylda’s life.’
Ms Taylor-Wood also attacked the media for concentrating on relationships between younger men and older women, who have been labelled ‘cougars’.
She said: ‘In the old days, "controversial" in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races. Now, it is a woman with a younger man. That would not happen with a man.’
Mr Johnson has also defended the relationship, saying: ‘I’ve got a wonderful woman. I’m an old soul, and she’s a young soul.’
Wow, Aaron had "family values" at the age of 18?!? I guess I shouldn't be so shocked. After all, there's a segment of the American population who think it's fine for two 16, 17 or 18-year-olds to get married in general, or if the guy got the girl pregnant. What's so different with this? That Sam is older and wiser and she's already had plenty of experience raising two nearly-adult children? I think Sam and Aaron make more sense than two 17-year-olds getting married and having a baby, honestly.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, and one photo from June, courtesy of WENN.
Back when Jesse James and Kat Von D were just dating, circa fall of last year, there were often rumors about Kat spending time with other dudes. There were two rumors in particular that I found interesting - Kat with Nikki Sixx, and Kat with Bam Margera. She was spotted hanging out with both of them, and apparently both are former boyfriends too. Kat's ex-husband, Oliver Peck, even went to the tabloids to talk about the Kat he knew - a superficial narcissist who screwed over friends and screwed around on him. So, basically, I wouldn't be surprised if Kat cheated on Jesse James, despite the stories that Jesse was the cheater. I think both of them would and could easily have had affairs. This week's Star Magazine claims that it was Kat, though - and that Jesse dumped her because she was boning Bam.
Star has learned that Jesse James broke off his engagement to Kat Von D after accusing her of cheating on him.
"Jesse believed Kat had been getting it on with her longtime friend Bam Margera, and they had a huge blowup over it," an insider tells Star. "Given his past history with Sandra, Jesse's over-the-top jealousy when it came to Kat is almost laughable."
Trouble was percolating in Jesse and Kat's relationship almost from the start.
"Jesse lives in Austin, and Kat's based in LA, where most of her best friends are guys - many of whom she's been intimate with in the past. There was always a lot of fuel to fire up Jesse's Jealous nature."
One of her closest friends is Bam, 31. A few weeks after Ryan Dunn's death on June 20, "Bam went over to Kat's LA home to hang out and talk, and he ended up spending the night. Jesse found out and questioned her about it, and Kat let slip something about how 'Bam just can't sleep alone.' Jesse hit the roof when he heard that and accused Kat of cheating on him. They were barely hanging by a thread by then."
The final nail in the coffin came after Jesse and Kat went to a Soundgarden concert on July 22: "After the show, Jesse wanted to go backstage and meet the band, but Kat refused A mutual friend told Jesse later that Kat had a romantic history with one of the band members - and she didn't want to be around him with Jesse by her side" They broke up four days after the concert.
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Kat was bonin’ errybody. Star's insider also claims that Bam "has a long history with Kat. She needs constant companionship - and their friends believe he's supplied it in the past." Okay, y'all. No slut-shaming Kat. She did us all a great service by cheating on Jesse. Yes, she's still kind of gross - not because she sleeps with everything with a pulse, but because she's kind of smarmy and delusional and crazy. But she screwed Jesse over, so for that alone, she deserves a slow clap.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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